I’ve had an open media platform for a while now, and I’ve shared a lot of clinic stories with you, and many of you will come over to leave comments and interact with me, and occasionally in the comments section, comments like “Why didn’t you have the syndactyly done when the baby was born” will appear. Not only online, in the real clinic this phenomenon is not uncommon. Many parents, after learning that their newborn child has syndactyly, are eager to take their child for surgery, not wanting their child to be affected by syndactyly in the future. We can understand the parents’ feelings, but the surgery for newborns is not as simple as imagined, the child’s body has to reach a certain standard, not too early. The child has to be healthy and free from other diseases, and weighs 6kg, which is about six months of age. The operation should not be done too early, but not too late either, because some of the syndactyly is the ring little finger or the thumb index finger together, the difference in the length of the finger body is large, and when they are together, the finger body is pulling each other, and over time, it will lead to deformation of the knuckle, which is what we do not want to see.